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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
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Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
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Date: 13 Sep 90 15:48:35 GMT
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> brad@looking.on.ca writes:
> 
> If I were a computer criminal, I might just create a very special printer
> with a bank of non-volitile storage in it.  Or, for that matter, just buy one
> of the modern printers you can get these days with 4 megs ram, etc.
> 
> I would use that storage, normally, to keep all the stolen access codes,
> calling card numbers, and other incriminating data.   Pretty easy, with the
> high speed link I have to my printer, to fetch the codes from it.

Sounds like a lot of trouble to me.  Why not just take your infomation and DES
encrypt it with any of the popular packages that do this (such ask PKZIP, which
will compress it while you're at it)?  Then just conveniently "forget" the
password.  If you want to hide it a little better you might write a program
that will attach it to the end of a .EXE file, so that it looks like just
another overlay.

It would take 30 seconds to encrypt or decrypt and attach or unattach a largish
file to, say, TELIX.EXE (or substitute your favourite executable for your
favourite OS here) if you knew the password.

        -cjs    ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )